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King

Date Submitted: 02/11/2001 07:05:44
Category: / Literature / English
Length: 7 pages (1874 words)
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James Seale Ed Sears English 1302-19 7 March, 2000 Stephen Edwin King is one of today's most popular and best selling writers. King's major contribution to horror literature is to situate it within the general anxieties of contemporary life. His focus is not on vampires, werewolves and such, but on ordinary people faced with these horrors and the darker horrors of lost jobs, disintegrating families, mental breakdown, and all the other fears that haunt the modern age. …

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